[Python-Dev] Buildbots have trouble checking out the repository due to recent changes.

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon May 12 16:28:17 CEST 2008


> 1.0. There are still case folding bugs in 1.0 - I'm working on fixing
> them. But there will never be a complete fix for this situation, as
> it's simply not possible to checkout the exact svn layout of that
> revision on a case-folding system, it simply can't be supported
> (without name mangling of files in the working directory).

Assuming this is NTFS, notice that it is not the file system that is
case-folding, but the API. If you pass FILE_FLAGS_POSIX_SEMANTICS to
the API, you can get case-sensitive behavior (to some degree, as there
are bugs in that API, as well).

Regards,
Martin


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